Regional service areas to become service areas -- Change from regional service area to service area not to affect rights, obligations, board makeup, or property of former regional service area.
Regional service areas to become service areas -- Change from regional service area to service area not to affect rights, obligations, board makeup, or property of former regional service area.
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(1) Each regional service area, created and operating under the law in effect before April 30, 2007, becomes on that date a service area, governed by and subject to Chapter 1, Provisions Applicable to All Local Districts, and this part.
(2) The change of an entity from a regional service area to a service area under Subsection (1) does not affect:
(a) the entity's basic structure and operations or its nature as a body corporate and politic and a political subdivision of the state;
(b) the ability of the entity to provide the service that the entity:
(i) was authorized to provide before the change; and
(ii) provided before the change;
(c) the validity of the actions taken, bonds issued, or contracts or other obligations entered into by the entity before the change;
(d) the ability of the entity to continue to impose and collect taxes, fees, and other charges for the service it provides;
(e) the makeup of the board of trustees;
(f) the entity's ownership of property acquired before the change; or
(g) any other powers, rights, or obligations that the entity had before the change, except as modified by this part.